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Feta Cheese Name Belongs
To Greece, EU Court Adviser Rules

By

Meghan Sapp Dow Jones Newswires

Updated May 10, 2005 8:14 a.m. ET

BRUSSELS -- A top European Court adviser ruled Tuesday that only Greek cheesemakers should be allowed to use the name "feta."

The opinion represents a major defeat for large feta producers in Denmark and Germany. It still must be upheld later this year by the full European Court of Justice, which follows the advocate general opinion 80% of the time.